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years; while the unspent forces of a new and rising population 

 are applied every year, to the land. Her marvelous advances in 

 industrial education will be spoken of in another connection. 



The study of the details of experimental farming in France, 

 Germany, Austria and now in Kussia, should be a part of the 

 training of every American farmer. In no European country 

 can the time-honored privileges of class give way to the neces 

 sities and claims of agricultural labor without a conflict; while 

 in America, free lands, liberty of conscience and free education 

 offer to it a prospect as boundless as it is inspiring. As every 

 narrow sentiment of nationality is here becoming lost and 

 merged in the more exalted sense of humanity, so the distinc 

 tions of class and the jealousies between capital and labor will 

 lose themselves in an equality of education, and the application 

 of science to the laws of individual, social, and national life. 



CHAPTER V. 



AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES. 



&quot;The provision in the Mosaic code, (Leviticus, xxvi, 35,) that the Israelites should abstain 

 from agriculture e-very seventh year, was probably intended to prevent the soil from being ex- 

 liaueted by excessive cultivation.&quot; 



AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE DUE TO THE FARMERS THE SOUTH ATLANTIC STATES 

 WANT or SYSTEM COTTON AND TOBACCO Gov. HAMMOND ON SOCJTH CAROLINA 

 AGRICULTURE GEORGIA SILK CULTURE Gov. COLLIER ON THE WANTS or ALA 

 BAMA THE OLD DOMINION AND THE OLD COMMONWEALTH CONTRASTED EMI* 

 GRATION FIRST AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES AND JOURNALS WERE ESTABLISHED IN 

 THE SOUTH DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRY WOULD HAVE SECURED EMANCIPATION 

 LOUISIANA TEXAS. 



THE history of agriculture in the United States covers a 

 brief period as compared with that of other nations, yet per 

 haps on no other part of the earth s surface has the lesson 

 of man s true relation to the land been more impressively writ 

 ten. Our historians have scarcely deigned to notice any of the 

 important facts concerning it; among the storied names of em 

 inent men, we find soldiers, sailors, authors and inventors, while 

 those of the benefactors of agriculture have no place. Yet it 

 was to this class that America owes her independence. Tories 

 swarmed in the cities; and it was commonly stated in England 

 that the Revolution was one of &quot;yeoman, who left their plows 



